Elisabeth - Enigma of an Empress

Elisabeth - Eine rätselhafte Kaiserin

Sisi has become an ultimate art figure, a construct that completely omits the controversial persona behind an Empress against her own will. In a wholly unvarnished way, this lavish documentary project is now to shed light on a distinctive era in European history. Elisabeths bio mirrors the social change marking 19th century Europe: nationalism, liberalism, parliamentarianism, movements of liberation. Her rebellion against the conventions of the court, her obsession with her body, her journeys across Europe, her escape into a world of dreams, her poetry and love of art provided fertile ground for all the legends unfolding around Sisi, which culminated in her assassination in Geneva in 1898. For sure, a remake of reality is more exciting than cliché and myth.